The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-25
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Points About Interviews and Other
Interesting Matters.

Holley, Josiah Aliens Wife," is not
especially fond of interviewers and is apt to
avoid them when she can. She told me no
long time ago, however, that her experiences
with newspaper women were often like that
of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who on
one occasion did her utmost to escape seeing
a correspondent, but after a half hours
talk made up for her previous backwardnesS
by exclaiming with some warmth: oh, |
like you! Can't you come agains"
Interviewers of the sex masculine dislike
to get points from a woman sometimes,
because they say she always wants to see
the note book, the pencil and the other
paraphernalia come out and to be sure her
sentences are taken down verbatim. This is
not the experience of a feminine interviewer
with her own sex, however, The woluans
punctilio with reporter is mainly put on
To let him know she has been through the
operation before and understands the
mechanism and the proprieties of the occa-
sion. The reporter may find Ter ready
enough To talk to him, but he has no idea
how She unbosoms herself TO Newspaper
woman whom she trusts. BE she writer,
lecturer, educator, on u charities board,
whatever her doings, her plans or her pros
poets, with a woman she has no Thought OF
lead pencil formalities She knows She is
talking to some one who very likely looks
at the matter from the same point of view
with herself. and she is as frank and conf
dental as if she chatted TO her own shadow.
interviewing women commonly is very easy
and very pleasant work for women.
LAST SPRING WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT
was made that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleye-
land was coming to New York to reside in
the fall, the house of Mrs. Sylvanus Reed,
in whose school Miss Cleveland had engaged
to teach, was haunted for day or two by
reporters, mostly women, to get the latest
developments for publication. II so
happened that one onterprsing news
gatherer resorting TO n device not altogether
unknown among newspaper men, presented
herself TO Mrs. Reed not as an accredited
reporter, but as the mother of a little girl
whom she wished to enter in the school.
With parents pardonable interest she
piled Mrs. Reed with questions about Miss
Cleveand's attainments, her exact position
in the school and Mrs. Reeds opinion of her
capabilities and that lady, wholly unaware
that she was talking for cold type, spoke
freely, and experienced something of "A
surprise TO see a sprightly and very readable
exaggeration OF her remarks i'll a morning
paper next day. Mrs. Reed was unable to
remember the personal appearance of her
betrayer, and tho next feminine reporter,
who visited her would have met cold re-
ception if she had not been able to produce
satisfactory evidence that she was not the
guilty she Women take the news scenting
of the masculine reporter for granted, but
they visit the sins of their own sex with
severer punlshments All newspaper
women suffer when one Is little too clever
Though the number of women engaged in
newspaper work does not multiply very
rapidly, the organization of womenS press
associations testifles to the fact that the
women who are in it expect to stay. The
Womens National Press Association was
organized in New Orleans during the ex-
position and branches have sprung up in
several States. The most hourishing of
these probably are the Chicago Association
and the New England Association, which
number among its members Alice Stone
Blackwell and Mrs. Vogel, of the Woman's s
Journal: Mrs. Marion Mcbride of the
Boston Post; Mrs. Sallie JOY White, of the
Herald; Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods, as well
as representatives OF a good portion of the
papers published in Massachusetts,.
MRS. LOUISA KNAPP,
who receives 5000 a year for editing the
Philadelphia Home Journal, does her work
under conditions as pleasant as often fall to
the lot of a journalist Her business Office
is at her home in Camden, n. j., and is full
of pictures and flowers. She has telephone
connections with the Philadelphia establish
ment and directs the smallest details of the
work.
Some pretty yachting costumes appear
on these yachting days in New York A
woman who enjoys the water at all enjoys
it very much and looks better on yachtboard
than anywhere else. A picturesque costume
that went charmingly with bright cheeks
and flowing hair was sailor shirt of
cream-white silk, laced with scarlet silk,
and having rolling collar. A short full
skirt of fine red serge went with it, and
peaked Yachting cap in red and white.
Another pretty dsvice for IA snowy blonde
was petticoat of striped blue and white
serge over this was draped a white serge
tunic raised high on the right side and
drawn plainly across to the left. The blue
bodies had vest, cuffs and revers of white.
With the gown went white felt sailor hat
with ribbons Of blue. A gala day yachting
gown for smooth water sailing was Of white
silk. shirt and skirts alike, the color being
supplied by a peaked blue cap and a blue
sash knotted loosely about the waist and
falling in lieu of draperies at one side.
This also was blonde girls gown and suited
her red gold hair wonderfully.
Soft white India silk gowns for not too
formal evening wear are finished nowadays
with scarf drapery Of the silk crossing the
bodice diagonally from the shoulders and
then forming panier on one side. Some
IiHHteF ldIfltn, Rtatl@e VI lhtts bH buS
other side low ON the skirt like loosely
ltnotted sash There is a long, pointed vest
and high collar, wrought with pearls.
Mrs. Whitney, the wife Of the Secretary
of the Navy, is said on pretty good author
ity to mean 10 push her scheme for the
establishment of college for the training
of domestic servants ~ accomplishment in
New Yorl; this winter Neither Mrs. Whit
ney nor anybody else can induce American
girls 10 enter such an institution unless
committed TO it by n magistrate until
American women see to it that kitchen girls
do not lose caste any more than shop girls
or school teachers.
Mrs. Langtry was u picturesque object on
Broadway the other day clad in dark blue
tailor gown, fitting without a wrinkle, and
crowned by a feather plunied Rembrandt
hat. But she does stain her hair. There's
no use denying IL. There isn't theatre
goer with memory Ave seasons long who
can't remember when II was a simple brown
without the red gold ia IT, r. r. H.
Her Hundred and Third Year.